Erma Bombeck: Legacy of Laughter
This film examines the life and career of the late American humorist. Archival photographs, video clips and personal memorabilia trace Bombeck's life from her childhood during the Great Depression to her work as a women's rights activist. Interviews with family, friends and colleagues and readings from her work expand the portrait. Her neighbor, friend and former talk-show host Phil Donahue narrates the profile.G

10:00 pm

Frontline"Big Sky, Big Money"
In collaboration with public radio's "Marketplace," FRONTLINE travels to Montana, epicenter of the campaign finance debate, for a tale of money, politics and intrigue. The state tried to challenge the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in court. Montana is now investigating suspected campaign abuses and playing host to a bitter U.S. Senate race.G

NOVA"Iceman Murder Mystery"
He's been dead for more than 5,000 years. He's been poked, prodded and probed by scientists for the last 20. And yet today, Otzi the Iceman, the famous mummified corpse pulled from a glacier in the Italian Alps nearly two decades ago, continues to keep many secrets.G

10:00 pm

Inventions That Shook The World"The 1930's"
Though overshadowed by the Great Depression, there is no shortage of ingenuity in the 1930s. The 2-way radio gets miniaturized and the world's first portable walkie-talkie goes on the air. The electric guitar changes popular music forever and commuters become a cash cow for cities when the parking meter is introduced. Part 4 of 10G

Burt Wolf: What We Eat"Domesticated Bliss: The Story of Livestock In America"
Burt traces the changes brought to America with the introduction of chicken, pigs, horses and cattle from Europe.G

10:00 pm

Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence"Asia Express"
Joanne embraces teaching traditional recipes and then showing new ways to use them. She and her student Reggie make mayonnaise and create an Asian inspired meal of tuna burgers with wasabi mayonnaise and Thai cabbage and grapefruit slaw, leaving Reggie wondering if he will ever buy mayonnaise again. Recipes: Grilled Yellowtail Tuna Burgers with Wasabi Mayonnaise and Thai Cabbage and Grapefruit Slaw. D

10:30 pm

Rick Steves' Europe"Surprising Bulgaria"
Rick finds a time warp of old and new chic shops in the city, and donkey carts in the country.G

11:00 pm

Habitable Planet, The"Atmospheric Pollution"
Once released, air pollutants react chemically with each other under solar radiation to become even more dangerous secondary pollutants. A company in the Northeast U.S. tracks the emission of pollutants at street level, while an international long-term study follows plumes of pollution from Mexico City across the continent and beyond. D

11:30 pm

Habitable Planet, The"Earth's Changing Climate"
Tropical glaciers are the world's thermometers; their melting is a signal that human activities are warming the planet. A California project tries to predict whether natural ecosystems will be able to absorb enough additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in the next 50 years to mitigate the full impact of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. D

Nature"Magic of the Snowy Owl"
Nature explores the world of the snowy owl, a bird recently made popular by Hedwig, Harry Potter's faithful companion. Turning fantasy into reality, "Magic of the Snowy Owl" takes an intimate look at how these majestic birds survive in one of the most isolated and inhospitable places on the planet. Noted wildlife filmmaker Fergus Beeley ("Jungle Eagle") takes viewers deep into the "snowy's" tundra home on the North Slope of Alaska to observe the daily struggles involved in raising a family of helpless chicks until they are able to fly. D

9:00 pm

WordWorld"Get Well Soon Soup/Mmm-Mmm-Milk!"
Get Well Soon Soup - When Ant gets sick, Pig tries to take care of him by making his special Get-Well-Soon Soup. It has all the letters in the alphabet in it, so Pig can build any word that Ant needs to feel better. Pig just has to figure out what that word is! Mmm-mmm-milk! - When Ant comes over to Pig's house to eat cookies, Pig tries to get him to drink some milk. D

9:30 pm

Caillou"It's Cold Outside! Brrr!"
When Caillou's family makes a springtime visit to Jonas' ranch, he takes them on a sleigh ride to a maple forest where Caillou discovers how the maple sap is collected from maple trees and gets to help collect some. The twins, Jason and Jeffrey, have come to play with Caillou in the snow. An investigation into some small tracks in the snow, leads them to a mischievous and playful squirrel that soon has them running around the yard. D

10:00 pm

Barney & Friends"Sweeter Than Candy: Greece"
Barney, Baby Bop and BJ are helping the park kids get ready for a school play. When Barney tells everyone that putting on shows began in Greece, they want to go visit! While there, they meet some friends and decide to put on a play in an amphitheatre. Barney knows a great story that originated in Greece called "King Midas. D

10:30 pm

Thomas & Friends"Laughing Together"
Big Belle - Belle is very excited to learn that Toby also has a bell just like hers, and wants to go and be friends with him. Toby is a little intimidated when he sees how big and powerful Belle is. Belle decides that she wants Toby to do everything that she wants to do. D

11:00 pm

Curious George"Scaredy Dog/Say Goodnight, George"
George and Hundley are scared off by a Big Creepy Noise they hearing down in the basement.G

11:30 pm

Martha Speaks"Martha's Slumber Party of the Weird/Return to Martha's Slumber Party of the Weird"
Martha's Slumber Party of the Weird - The gang is camping out. The tent is pitched, they've played a hundred hands of Go Fish, and they've even eaten all the s'mores - but they still aren't tired. When TD suggests they tell science fiction stories, no one expects this story to end as it does: to be continued! Vocabulary: (E) science fiction, data, unpredictable, forsee(able), unforeseen, feline(s) (I) gather(ing), mysterious, peculiar, vine. D